Using Computational Tools to Uncover Structure and Status in Academic Fields and Public Debates

New computational tools and data allow for new approaches to uncover structure in the social organization of scientific fields. These questions are explored in two settings. Achim Edelmann examines a significant public policy debate on whether to use potentially pandemic pathogens in biomedical experiments; Kieran Healy analyzes the structure of status in English-language Philosophy over the past 25 years.